HEADS UP: Removing functions from driver API

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 04 June 2009 2:16:11 pm M. Warner Losh wrote:
> I'd like to remove from the driver API by making the following static:
> 	devclass_add_driver
> 	devclass_delete_driver
> 	devclass_find_driver
> 
> They aren't used, nor generally useful, by drivers in the current
> tree.  The devclass_t routines are generally harder to lock than
> necessary because they touch so much global data.  By eliminating
> these from the API, its three fewer functions that need to be robustly
> locked for external consumers.  Since they are basically unused today
> anyway, I think it would be better to just reduce their scope.
> 
> Comments?

Go for it.

-- 
John Baldwin